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Butler examines gender, sex, psychoanalysis, and the way medicine and the law treat intersex and transgender people. [1] Focusing on the case of David Reimer who was born male and reassigned to be raised as a girl after a botched circumcision, Butler reexamines the theory of performativity that they originally explored in Gender Trouble (1990).
The character, a shapeshifter, switches between the male identity of Imaginos and the female identity of Desdinova. [299] Marshmallow web series: Annoying Orange: Dane Boe: Non-binary 2010–present A sweet-natured, cheerful, talking marshmallow. Initially, the character refused to specify their gender because it amused them to do so.
Butler to the Lord family in The Philadelphia Story: 1939: Thomas Barrow: Butler to the Crawley family in the ITV series Downton Abbey: 2015: V ; Valkenhayn R. Hellsing: butler to the Alucard family in the BlazBlue videogame series: 2008: various members of the Igor family: in the Discworld novels: 1998: Vishnal: butler to the avatar in Rune ...
Butler concludes the piece by noting that now that she is a successful science fiction and fantasy writer, she is often interrogated on the usefulness of her writing to black people; for her, the answer to this constant questioning is obvious: science fiction as a genre that proposes alternative realities and behaviors, discusses the potential ...
Undoing Gender collects Butler's reflections on gender, sex, sexuality, psychoanalysis and the medical treatment of intersex people for a more general readership than many of their other books. Butler revisits and refines their notion of performativity and focuses on the question of undoing "restrictively normative conceptions of sexual and ...
Some franchises alleviated that concern. For instance, the Steven Universe franchise, from 2013 to 2020, included various non-binary characters, including all Gem characters, since series creator Rebecca Sugar stated that the Gems are "all non-binary women," [8] One prominent character is Stevonnie, who is a fusion of Steven and Connie.
Over the course of the 1990s, Butler, Laclau, and Žižek found themselves engaging with each other's work in their own books. In order to focus more closely on their theoretical differences (and similarities), they decided to produce a book in which all three would contribute three essays each, with the authors' respective second and third essays responding to the points of dispute raised by ...
First combined publication (Warner Books)The Patternist series (also known as the Patternmaster series or Seed to Harvest) is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.